Rosy Senanayake

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Bernadine Rosemarie Ramanayake Senanayake (Rosy Senanayake) is a working committee member of the main opposition United National Party in Sri Lanka and a former[1] Sri Lankan High Commissioner for Malaysia[2].

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Ms. Senanayake was the winner in the first Mrs. World competition in 1984. She is also a former Miss Asia Pacific International and competed as Miss Sri Lanka in Miss World 1980. She was appointed as a United Nations Population Fund Goodwill Ambassador in 1998.

Her professional life has been devoted to promoting Sri Lanka, and particularly Sri Lankan trade, to the world. She promotes the rights of women and adolescents in her country, and as a United Nations Population Fund Goodwill Ambassador she has, through the National Youth Services Council, promoted reproductive health services for young people and for migrant women workers in Sri Lanka's Free Trade Zone.[3]

She has worked with the private sector to provide reproductive health services to employees of private companies in Sri Lanka, and recently starred in a film about reproductive health.